component => {
    version => "1.23.4.567",
    sources => {
        "filename1"  => "checksumfile1",
        "filename2"  => "checksumfile2",
        "filename3"  => "checksumfile3",
   }
##</code><code>##

 component=HF
version=NULL
sourcefile=filename1
sourcesum=checksumfile1
sourcefile=filename2
sourcesum=checksumfile2
sourcefile=filename3
sourcesum=checksumfile3
component=SVM
version=10.0.70.102
sourcefile=filename4
sourcesum=checksumfile4
##</code><code>##

use strict;
use Data::Dump qw(dump);

my %HoH = ();
my $rec;
my $component;

while ( <DATA> ) {
    chomp;
    next unless m/^\S+/; 
    if( m/^component=(.*)/ ) {
        $component = $1;
        $rec = {}; 
        $HoH{$component} = $rec; 
    }
    elsif( m/^version=(.*)/ ) {
        $rec->{"version"} = $1;
    }
    else
    {
        my ($key, $value) = split /=/; 
        $rec->{$key} = $value;
    }
}    

for my $component ( keys %HoH ) {
    print "$component: ";
    for my $key ( keys %{ $HoH{$component} } ) {
         print "$key=$HoH{$component}{$key} ";
    }
    print "\n";
}

dump %HoH;

__DATA__
component=HF
version=NULL
sourcefile=filename1
sourcesum=checksum1
sourcefile=filename2
sourcesum=checksum2
sourcefile=filename3
sourcesum=checksum3
component=SVM
version=10.0.70.102
sourcefile=filename4
sourcesum=checksum4